Archives for
July 2012

Most baby clothes are dull. Rather than sticking to the boring old pink or blue options, why not dress your baby as the geek you want them to grow up to be? We have found 10 great onesies with some seriously geeky messages, from social media referenc...

With Windows 8, Microsoft wants customers to think of tablets as much more than just "consumption" devices, but also machines that you can use to do actual work. It's an open question whether consumers will share that view, but with great accessories...

Does your laptop threaten to melt down every time the mercury rises? If you don't want to invest in a pricey laptop fan stand, consider some super-portable "feet," a good solution to combat overheating. Help prevent your portable PC from suffering he...

Photos of what could be the 10-inch version of BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet have surfaced on Vietnamese forum Tinhte. If real, the tablet looks very much the same as its smaller, 7-inch brother, with a simple, black design, relatively wide bezel and ...

The weekend started off with a bang, thanks to the dazzling opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. That was spectacular enough to get everyone super-ready for the athletic competition involving our entire planet. There were plenty of stories abo...

Organic foods and beverage maker Clif Bar is launching what it claims is the first geo-location Twitter campaign. The company wants you to send a geo-tagged tweet to @CLIFMojoGo the next time you're in a park, at the beach or on a trail. Once the com...

Over the weekend we've seen some pretty convincing photos of what may be Apple's next-generation iPhone, and now the housing of the said iPhone has been captured on video. Just like the spy shots from the Lab Factory, this case -- unearthed by the fo...

Spectators using Twitter jammed the transmissions of data from Sunday's men's cycling race, disrupting the BBC's coverage of the event, according to Olympics organizers. The BBC blames the Olympic Broadcasting Service for the lack of data, which led ...

While American gymnast Aly Raisman calmly performed her bar routine Sunday night, her parents felt pressure in the stadium. Luckily, NBC's camera crew captured their hilarious reaction. Raisman scored a 14.166 on the bars. After a stellar overall per...

Users have downloaded more than 3 million copies of the new version of Apple's PC operating system, Mac OS X 10.8 or Mountain Lion, in its first four days of availability. This makes Mountain Lion the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history. ...

Apple's long-awaited new iPhone will be announced on Sept. 12, according to a report. The blog iMore reports that Apple will announce the new iPhone -- possibly called the iPhone 5 -- plus a new iPod Nano via a special announcement on that data. The ...

Gillette seems to have learned a lesson from TNT's hugely successful "Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Street" viral video back in April and is using a similar idea to hype an Olympics-themed razor. In the video, shot in Würzburg, Germany, earlier this m...

Time for a little Geography/Economy 101. This impressive world map defines each country using their currency. Study up because a pop quiz may follow. The map, which took Reddit user The310Investigator 12 hours to make, quickly shot to the front page ...

It's not a surprise, but Microsoft Surface -- the tablet being built by the software giant itself -- will make its debut on the same day Windows 8 arrives: Oct. 26. When Microsoft unveiled the Surface tablet in June, it was a bit vague about its rele...

While the Adobes of the world continue to rack up customer wins, and even Google Premium soaks up a few dollars from enterprises that need a service-level agreement, there are several options that are neither costly nor Google. Here are a few of them...

Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz wants Twitter users to write the plotlines to his "The Woman I Love" music video, which he'll premiere on Twitter this fall. Fans' Twitter usernames will be shown at the end of the video. "It's an idea that's never been d...

Non-sponsors of the 2012 Olympic Games aren't allowed to use the logo, Olympic rings and words like "Olympic" and "London 2012." But are these strict guidelines too much? Paddy Power and Nike seem to think so. The companies have both come up with cov...

Not much happens in this 13-second trailer teaser for Paranormal Activity 4, but there's enough creepiness to get fans excited. The grainy home surveillance footage should be familiar to those who saw the first three installments of the thriller seri...

For journalists familiar with the platform, Reddit can be a rich source for story material. For the uninitiated, presented with pages and pages of equally weighted links, mostly bare of thumbnails and organized loosely into subreddits, it can be over...

Sitting home alone on New Years Eve in 2010, Tanja Hollander Facebook chatted with her friend Sandeep in Jakarta, Indonesia, as she hand wrote a letter to her other friend Jed, who was deployed in Afghanistan. "I was thinking about how cool it is tha...

Digg is emerging after a six-week hiatus with an image-heavy design devoid of advertising and stories chosen by editors that will be based on shares on Facebook and Twitter as well as Diggs. "The final version is close to complete," the new Digg team...

Nike has developed a special set of glasses that enhance an athlete's physical reaction time and visual performance. Backed by Duke University research, the SPARQ Sensory Performance system assesses users' needs and develops a training program to "fi...

James Holmes, the lone suspect in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, was formally charged with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder at a hearing on Monday morning. Holmes, age 24, allegedly opened fire at a July...

Has Twitter really hit 500 million users, as a new study claims -- or is the company drowning in fake accounts? Twitter tends to be very careful when it comes to announcing user numbers. Wary of its problem with bots and spam accounts -- such as the ...

A Swiss Olympian has been expelled from the Games for a racist tweet he posted this weekend. Soccer player Michel Morganella posted the offensive message after Switzerland lost to South Korea 2-1 on Sunday. His tweet, according to one widely cited re...

The Pentagon wants computer programs that predict "cyber terrorism events" by detecting how criminal groups and hackers interact on the Internet, contracting databases indicate. The military research arm wants scientists to build the tools to comb th...

If you work from home, you owe it to yourself to set up a proper office space. It's vital you have somewhere to concentrate that's separate from your home life -- and is hopefully a nice space to spend time in. A good working space is even more impor...

Guy Adams, a Los Angeles correspondent for London paper The Independent, was suspended from Twitter on July 30 after tweeting the email account of Gary Zenkel, the President of NBC Olympics. In an email to Adams, Twitter stated that his "account has ...

Good news, J.R.R. Tolkien fans: Warner Bros. and New Cinema have decided to turn The Hobbit into three films instead of two. Director Peter Jackson announced the decision on Monday with a post to his Facebook page. The film version of The Hobbit -- w...

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